Generate custom Blender tools and animations with Claude
A Blender animator has Claude write UI changes, utilities, a physics particle system and compositing stack, and used it to visualize how musical scales work. ·
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- What they did
- A Blender animator, whose day job is animated explainers rather than programming, has Claude write UI changes, convenience features and one-off utilities, including a physics-based particle system and a compositing stack. For a musical scales project, Claude built notation generation in Blender linked to a roughly physically accurate sound wave visualization. It also wrote a JavaScript synthesizer earlier.
- How it went
- Within tens of minutes of the request, Blender was producing credible notation tied to a wave simulation. The project is unfinished but promising. Connecting the synthesizer is expected to need only a JSON file or two.
- Worth knowing
- One-off tools that once weren't worth the effort, versus brute-forcing with manual keyframes, become cheap enough to commission from Claude for a single job.
Try it yourself with Claude
I use Blender [version] and want to [describe the tool, UI tweak, or animation effect, e.g. a particle system that reacts to physics or a compositing setup for glow]. Write the Python script or step-by-step node setup I need, explain where to paste or run it, and list the settings I can adjust. A finished job is a working script or setup I can run on my own scene, plus a short note on how to fix common errors.
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Source: HN · Nov 10, 2026
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